With latest shuffle, Kasich cabinet still lacks diversity [UPDATED]

Kasich’s first appointed African American cabinet member resigned last week. The Dispatch reports that tensions between Michael Colbert, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) and John McCarthy, Kasich’s new head of the Department of Medicaid, led Colbert to tender his resignation.

Kasich quickly announced Cynthia Callendar Dungey as Colbert’s replacement. Dungey is currently the chief of staff at the Department of Medicaid and, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer noted, “also a person of color”.

Well, when you live in the mid-20th century there’s no way you can imagine life in the early 21st. Keep digging, Johnny!

Andy Crawford

You guys aren’t even trying to be factually accurate any more. Michael Colbert wasn’t the only African American on Kasich’s Cabinet, Andre Porter is also African American. Also, your list of Cabinet members fails to take into account that Orman Hall is no longer with Addiction Services since that was merged with Mental Health, and Tom Moe is no longer at Veterans Services. Awesome “reporting.”